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One Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
- Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.
- How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
- Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
- My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking…
- But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with…
- Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all…
- I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't…
- One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I…
- No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.
- I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me,…
- She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the…
- Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum…
- Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.
- Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
- It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to…
- I’m not saying she was very silly, but one of us was very silly and it wasn’t me.
- Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever…
- Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
- Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them…
- She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament…
- One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
- If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser…
- Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near…
- Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think…
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